1878 Perth by-election

The Perth by-election of 1878 was fought on 29 January 1878. The byelection was fought due to the succession to a peerage of the incumbent Liberal MP, Arthur Kinnaird. It was won by the Liberal candidate Charles Stuart Parker.^[1]

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^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

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1874	March: Chicester New Shoreham Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities Liverpool North Hampshire Oxford University Dublin University Huntingdon Mid Surrey North Lincolnshire Portsmouth Buckinghamshire East Gloucestershire Eye Monmouthshire North Northumberland Dublin County North Devonshire North Northamptonshire Invernesshire South Devonshire South West Lancashire East Suffolk Galway North Leicestershire North Staffordshire Falkirk Burghs North Lancashire April: County Louth Hackney Preston May: Wakefield Stroud Dudley Poole Mayo June: City of Durham Haverfordwest Oxford Galway July: Launceston Stroud Kidderminster September: Midhurst October: Cambridgeshire Northampton November: Wenlock Birkenhead December: St Ives
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